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W. E. WINE RAILWAY CAR Filed July 29. 1922 M. ATTORNEY Patented Mar. lll, 119240 stares WLLLM E. WINT., OF TOLEDO, GHO.

RAILWAY CAR.

Application filed July 28,

1o all whom t may concer/n Be it known that l, `i/l/"ILLIAM E. iv/VINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Railway Cars, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to improvements in railway cars and has among its objects to provide an improved arrangement of the door construction therefor. Another more specii'ic object is to provide in combination with a car having a side sill and side planking, a door supporting mechanism attached to the side sill and the side planking. A still further object is to provide a railway car having side planking arranged in substantially the same vertical plane with the side sill of the car and in which a portion of the side planking is cut away to accommodate door supporting means.

With suoli objects, and others, in view, the invention consists of the formation, combination, and arrangement of parts as will be herein described and particularly claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings, which show a preferred embodiment of the invention, lligure 1 is a fragmentary side elevational view of a car body constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention. Figure 2 is a fragmentarytransverse vertical section taken through a portion of the car, this view being taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Figure 1.

Referring to these drawings, the car indicated is of the gondola type, having a side which is made up of a side sill 1 with side planking 2. The side sill 1 is formed of a standard steel channel section arranged with its back outward and with the flanges thereof turned toward the interior of the car.

Riveted upon the exterior face of this side sill 1, which extends in a horizontal direction, longitudinally of the car, are vertically arranged side stakes 3, these being secured to the side sill 1 by means of rivets 4. rlhese side stakes may also be formed of channel sections such as indicated in the drawings. Ilhe side planking 2 is arranged to occupy the same vertical plane as is occupied by the side sill 1, and the side planking may be` bolted to the side stakes as by means of the small bolts 5. Extending transversely of the car, preferably at the i922. seria1no.57s,312.

lower ends of each of the side stakes, are cross bearers 6 which may be formed of the 'E' irons as indicated in the drawings. rlhese may be framed at their ends to the side stakes by means of the rivets 7.

The oros bearers 6 may be utilized for supporting the hinged edges of drop doors such as 8 which are employed in the floors of such cars to normally close the hopper discharge openings therein. These idoors are preferably arranged in pairs located between the side stakes, the hinged edge of one of a pair of doors being supported upon the cross bearer 6 at the bottom of one side stake, and the hinged edge of the companion door for that panel of the car being hinged to the cross bearer which occurs at the bottom of the next adjacent side stake 3. Stationary hinges 9 are indicated in the drawings as attached to the cross-bearers 6 and door hinges 10 are indicated for cooperation therewith. Bolts such as 11 may be employed for securing the door hinges to the door, and a tie strap 12 may extend across the door, above the hinges 11, and above the door planking 13, to securely tie the door parts together. Bolts 14 may be utilized for holding the door planking to the tie straps.

The free edges of each pair of doors are preferably arranged to lie substantially in contact with each other when doors are closed, the free edges swinging away from each other when the doors are dropped to discharge the lading from the car. EX- tending across each door near the free edge of the same is an angle iron or door stili'- ening member 15. These angle irons may be secured to the doo-rs by means of bolts such as 16. rll`he ends of the angle irons eX- tend outward beyond the limits of the discharge opening of the car as defined by the inner face of the plank 23 so as to provide arms for cooperation with door-supporting means shortly to be described.

lt will be noted that the lowermost edge of the car is arranged somewhat below the bottom of the side sill, some of the side planking 2 being arranged below the side sill and some above the side sill 1. rlhe side sill being formed of a metal beam, it is of greater strength and durability than the wood planking, and it is preferable that the doors should be supported from the side sill than entirely from the wood planking, although the latter may also be utilized to assist in taking the concentration of load that occurs from the support of the doors.

In order that the doors may be properly supported, a supporting hook 17 is supplied for each door, and this is pivoted to the car body at 18 above the level of the door. Each hook is arranged with a preliminary supporting ledge 19 and a final supporting ledge 20. When the doors are lifted up, the one leg of the angle iron 15 may be seated temporarily upon the priliminary ledge 19, after which the door may be lifted or forced to acompletely closed position and the main ledge 20 of the hook 17 be swung into engagement beneath the angle iron 15, the outermost end of one leg of the angle iron 15 may be bent at a right angle to its general plane to forni an end stop to prevent the hook from creepin off-the end of the angle iron.

he hooks 17 are preferably located in the same plane as the channel 1, and in the gene-ral plane of the side planking. By this means the overall width of the car may be kept within reasonable limits. To do this, however, it is necessary to cut away a portion of the side planking, as at 22, so as to provide a space therein to receive the hooks. The resulting opening in the car side maybe closed by means of the additional interior plank 23, thereby preventing loss of lading.

1n order to properly support the pivots for the hooks 17, and in order to properly support the hooks from the side sill and from the side planking of the car, a plate 24C is secured to the interior face of the web of the channel 1 by means of the rivets 25.. This plate extends downward from the channel 1 and overlies the interior face of the lower portion of the side planking, being secured to the side planking by means of bolts 26. This plate may extend for practically the full span between adjacent side stakes, and thus form a stiening member for this port-ion of the car. It may also be carried down somewhat below the bottom edge 27 of the side planking as at 28 to form a slight hopper-like depression. The doors are shown as sloping somewhat from a higher l-evel at their hinged edges` to a lower level at their free edges, and butting against the lower edge of the plate 24 and the lower edge of the filler plank 23, when closed. lit is preferable that the doors should not be arranged to lie in a perfectly horizontal plane as it is more diliicult to close them when they must be lifted to level positions than when it is necessary to lift them only to such positions as indicated in the drawings.

A yplate 29 may also be applied to the outer face of the side sill 1 and to overlie the outer face of the side planking, the rivets 25 serving to secure this plate to the side sill. Some of the bolts 26 alsoipass 'through this plate, as well as through the plate 24E and the side plank. )rivets 30 may be employed to secure pivoting sleeves 31 between these plates,

claims without departing from the spirit ofV the invention.

liVhat is claimed is:

1. A railway car having a side sill side planking arranged substantially in the same vertical plane as the side sill, a door hinged in the lioor of the car and adaptedV to close against the lower edge of the car side, an arm extending outwardly beyond an edge of the door and beneath the side planking, a plate secured to the side plankwithing and to the side sill thereof, the same carrying a pivoted door-supporting hook adapted to engage the said arm.

2. A railway car having a metal side sill with wood side planking arranged substantially in the same vertical plane as the side sill, transversely arranged doors extending across the car and adapted to close hopper discharge openings in the floor of thecar, arms extending outward from the ends of the doors adapted' to cooperate with doorsupporting means, the latter including a plate secured to the side sill and overlying a portion of the side planking, and door-supporting hooks pivoted to the plate and adapted to engage the door arms.

3. A' railway car having a metal side sill with wood side planking arranged substantially in the same vertical pla-ne as the side sill, side stakes arranged on the exterior of the side sill and of the side planking and extending below the side. sill, transversely arranged doors located between adjacent side stakes and extending across the car and adapted to close hopper discharge openings in the floor of the car, arms extending outward from the ends of the doors, a plate depending from the side sill, door-supporting hooks pivoted to the plate, the same being adapted to supportingly engage the door arms, a portion of the side planking being cut away to accommodate the said hooks, and a filler piece adapted to close the opening resulting therefrom. Il. A. railway car having a side and a Hoor, the car side embodying uprights with lading-retaining planking secured thereto, a door hinged in the floor of the car, the same having an edge lying, when closed,

' Meden near the cer side, and a support-ing mechansm 'for the door, the same including a swinging doo--engegng member located beneath and in the vertical plane of Some of the said plenkng.

5. A railway car having a side and a floor, the car side embodying a side sill with uprghts therefrom and with ladingfetaning members secured to the uprights,

a door hinged in the Hoor of the cer, the seme having an edge lying, When closed, near the car side, and a supporting mechmism for the door, the same including a swinging door-engaging member located be- Heath and in the Vertical plane of the seid side sill.

In testimony whereof l eHx my signature.

WILLIAM E. WINE. 

